International Women's Day 2019 - #EconomicJustice for #GenderJustice

Over the course of the week leading
up to International Women's Day 2019 we released a series of graphics featuring
the staff of Eurodad and their work areas, with quotes reflecting how Eurodad's
work aims to
promote gender equality. This series is part of our overall '#EconomicJustice for #GenderJustice' campaign which continues during the
Commission on the Status of Women. Follow the hashtags for more informationor have a look below if you missed any of our staff members’ quotes.

"By
closing tax loopholes, and by tackling unsustainable debt and privatisation of development finance, Eurodad’s work
contributes to ensuring sufficient public finance for quality and
adequate public services in education, health and infrastructure. These are
essential ingredients for women’s empowerment."

- Jean Letitia Saldanha,
newly appointed Director of Eurodad

"Public-private
partnerships (PPPs) are currently high on the development agenda as a way to
finance infrastructure projects and social services, such as health and
education. However, donors and development finance institutions’ support for
PPPs runs counter to governments’ commitments under the SDGs and elsewhere to
promote gender equality and the fulfilment of women’s rights.

Eurodad works to
overcome economic inequalities, including gender inequality, to promote
economic justice and maximize the availability of public funding for high
quality services for all."

"Inequality has a
disproportionate impact on women - we know countries with higher levels of
income inequality also generate higher gender inequalities across health,
education, labour market participation and representation. The tax system is
the most effective tool for redistributing wealth within a country, between
countries, as well as between women and men. Eurodad advocates for tax justice
to stem the loss of resources in developing countries and works together
with civil-society across the globe, to ensure economic justice promotes gender
equality and works for everyone."

- Olivia Lally, Senior Policy &
Advocacy Officer (tax justice)

"Too often, the
impacts of sovereign indebtedness are most heavily felt by the vulnerable or
marginalised. Costly debt servicing reduces the funds available for
public service provision, undermining human rights and development. While debt
crises are frequently tackled through harsh austerity measures tied to
creditors' desires rather than the needs of a country's
population. Research shows that women and girls are hit disproportionately
by these realities - whether through the erosion of essential public health
services, or through post-crisis economic reforms that ignore gendered impacts,
for example.

Eurodad continues to
push for reform of the global financial system to support human rights
compliant debt management and thereby promote gender equality and the rights of
women and girls."

- Mark Perera, Senior Networking & Advocacy Officer

"Official Development
Assistance or Aid is the only source of international finance flowing from rich
to poor countries that has the specific aim to eradicate poverty and reduce
inequalities. Nevertheless the way in which aid is delivered often reduces its
potential to generate real development that works for communities and people in
developing countries and especially women. As we know women are less likely to
have an income on their own and rely disproportionately more on public services
than men, it matters a great deal to focus ODA on the delivery of public
services that are accessible to all. That is why Eurodad advocates strongly for
public finance to deliver public services and for robust rules for private
sector engagement in the delivery of aid.''